Re: Do Pandoc's conversion functions which exist in both directions guarantee/aim for bijectivity?

[Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org>]

On 5/3/21 6:23 PM, Jeffrey Wang wrote:
> I was not able to find any concrete information establishing the answer 
> to this question. I ask this to see how much I can depend on using 
> Pandoc for an application that would convert back and forth between two 
> formats, one for storage/authoritative purposes and the other for 
> rendering/display purposes. Thanks!

I don't believe there's any particular aim for it -- notably the 
Markdown format is known to not always return the input when run on 
itself.  The aim is for the output to be the semantic equivalent, not 
that it will be the same.

Daniel T. Staal

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